Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 2 | Their last attempt on this difficult mountain was repulsed by bad weather , but he hope that by climbing in the post-monsoon season they will have better luck . |
| 3 | Erm we was living in the High Street I believe . |
| 4 | Although there are many agencies operating in the domiciliary sector we have detailed utilization data for only a minority of these : home helps and the mobile meals services ( meals on wheels ) . |
| 5 | Yes there are similarities in the sense that all are operating in the international environment I mentioned before . |
| 6 | Thought well at least I 'm heading in the right direction you know . |
| 7 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 8 | After a few rosy years teaching in the rural school I got a job on a city estate . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 10 | They stated : ‘ When manifesting in the physical world it brings with it the forces of attraction and repulsion and moves in a curved path or spiral . ’ |
| 11 | In the meantime , all the genuine members who 've stayed on are livin' in the tented village they 've set up in the grounds , around the burned out house . |
| 12 | The audience was silent , drinking in the obscene spectacle she was making of herself . |
| 13 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 14 | And the Bishop married me there and the vicar and er quite a lot of people had come there from all over like because I was being marrying in the Welsh church you see , I did n't have a lot of And the Bishop married me , that was something for them to come . |
| 15 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | And yet if you go for a top job in the city or anywhere an and start talking in the southern dialect they 'll you . |
| 17 | Schmeicel — on a trip to nowhere when the cross came in — he was a little obstructed — but for a big guy playing in the english league he should really have no problems with that one . |
| 18 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 19 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 20 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |